[Gretl-devel] gretl on mac os10.5

[Sven Schreiber]

Allin Cottrell schrieb:
>
> I can send my own notes when I get home again.  Are you building 
> on PPC or Intel?  I'm OK for building a Intel .dmg; I just can't 
> do PPC any more.  
>   
> The ideal would be to build a "Universal binary" (PPC/Intel), but 
> I'm afraid I can't help with that; I have't figured out whether 
> you can do that using the GNU-familiar command-line tools, as I 
> do, or whether you have to get everything into Xcode somehow.
>   


Right now I have a new (=>Intel) Mac Mini (with 10.5), but probably only 
for the next couple of months. This would be for trying to build a 
Universal Binary.

Then I have a very old PPC Powermac. I want to install OS X on that 
(10.4), but it's not so easy to get hold of older install discs that 
would work with it. Once I manage to actually install an osx system 
there, building a ppc version is no problem. Actually I think that 
having a physical ppc machine is not crucial because one could set up a 
virtual ppc machine in an emulator. The problem (here in Germany at 
least) is really to get an older ppc osx version at a reasonable price. 
But I'm working on that.

In general I think it would be desirable to have a ppc version, because 
the last G5 macs were sold until last year I think. That's not too long ago.

thanks,
sven